Word: evtushenkos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, Evgeny Evtushenko, the bad boychik of Soviet letters, was at it again, this time kicking up a few vaguely dangerous poetic heels at the party during a Moscow meeting on the 70th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian village poet, Sergei Esenin. In his 52-line Letter to Esenin, Evtushenko raged oratorically on about how the "red-cheeked Komsomol leader thunders with his fists at us poets and wants to knead our souls like wax." The lines rang a bell for Sergei Pavlov, the red-cheeked secretary of the Komsomol (Young Communist League). He stormed...
After two years in the ideological doghouse, Russia's declamatory bard, Evgeny Evtushenko, 31, got back his traveling papers and poetic license, took off for a month's poetry-recital tour of Italy. And who should he find in Rome but Ballerina Anastasia Stevens, 22, whom he met in 1962 while she was the only American ever to dance with Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet. So off they waded into the Via Veneto's Dolce Vita, having a capital time dining at George's where no gentleman is allowed without a coat (an exception was made...
...literary sin; at last report, he was living with his wife and daughter in a Moscow flat-and continuing to write. A further sign of the post-Khrushchev leadership's gentler treatment of artists and writers was the scheduled departure for Italy last week of controversial Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, who plans a month's poetry-reading tour. It was the first time he had been allowed outside the Soviet Union since 1963, when he roamed through France and West Germany, delighting Western literary circles with his outspoken views, or, as the Kremlin later put it, his "cheap sensationalism...
...years ago, Soviet Poet Robert Rozhdestvensky, 32, was the idol of rebellious Communist youth. Sharing a platform with Evgeny Evtushenko and other young poets, Rozhdestvensky declaimed against the cult of Stalinism...
...Upton Sinclair. But the Wapshots' chronicler, John Cheever, 52, having updated the U.S. picture, was busy catching up on the Soviets too. In Moscow, at the end of a month-long tour of the Soviet Union, Cheever heard Poet Evgeny Evtushenlco, 31, recite his verse, after which Evtushenko took Cheever, another visitor, Novelist John Updike, and several pretty comrades off to a country dacha for some tonic research into suburban Soviet vodka parties. Cheever concluded that Evtushenko's lyric performance was "the most exciting thing I've ever heard," but he admired even more how Soviet writers...